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I UNITED" STATES PATENT oFFIcE GEORGE DECKER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO,ASSIGNOR TO THE PHILAD COMPANY, OF

CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO APPARATUS FOR HAIR WAVING vApplication filed July 18, 1929. Serial No. 379,187.

protector for retaining flat strands of hair adjacent the scalp of thewearer while the halr is being subjected to a waving process.

An object of the invention is to provide an improved clamp or protectorin which the parts most subject to deterioration or breakage may bereadily replaced.

Another object is to provide an improved clamp or protector whichwillefficiently pre vent the transfer of heat to the scalp of the wearer.

Another object is to provide an improved protector which may be readilyand economically manufactured.

Other objects will hereinafter appear.

The invention will be better understood from the description of onepractical embodiment illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which: I

igure 1 is a perspective view of the clamp in open position;

Figure 2 is a plan view of the clamp of Figure 1 showing a curling rodused therewith in its operative position;

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the clamp and rod of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is an end elevation of the clamp and rod of Figure 2 taken fromthe right hand end of this figure;

Figure 5 is an end elevation of the clamp and rod of Figure 2 taken fromthe left hand end;

Figure 6 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line VI-VI ofFigure 2;

Figure 7 is a cross sectional view taken on the line VII-VII of Figure2; and

Figure 8 is an enlarged perspective view of the holder and rubber stripshown in the preceding figures.

The clamp shown comprises two jaws which are pivoted together at one endand are provided with a detachable latching means by which they may besecured at the other end. One of the jaws consists of a channel-shapedarm 1 of sheet metal or other stifi' material while the other consistsof a somewhat similar channel-shaped arm 2 which is, however, providedat its outer pper edge with a reentrant bend 3 which constitutes a slotextending throughout its length. 'This slot is open at the top of thearm and is adapted to receive the thickened edge of a pad used to covera during a waving process.

These two arms are pivoted by means of a rivet 4 passing through lugsformed integral with one end of them, the lugs being .conveniently heldapart by washers. The bottom flange of each arm has two downwardlystruck lugs 5 which receive upwardly extending L-shaped lugs 6 struck upfrom channel-shaped retainers 7, the pairs of lugs strand of hair beingfirmly. united by being pressed together 55 after they have beeninterlocked. Each retainer carries a bar 8 of heat insulating material,conveniently balsa wood.

The arm 1 has two pairs of transversely extending slots cut through itsupper web, through which pass lugs 9 of upwardly extending cradles 10which are adapted to support a curling rod upon which the hair is woundand maintain the same centered above the opening through the clamp.These lugs are bent over, as best shown in Figure 6, and 4 so securelylock the cradles to the arm. The cradles 10 are each provided with acentral corrugation 11 for the pp'rpose of strengthening and stiffeningthem.

A ratchet spring 12, consisting of a leg 13 extending within arm'x 1 andsecured to the web thereof by rivet 14, and an outward upwardlyextending end 15 provided with a detent or pawl 16 is carried by arm 1,and arranged to engage the end of a curler rod. The curling rod consistsof a tube of substantially hyperboloid of revolution shape 17,, providedwith a tongue 18 pivoted to it adjacent one end by rivet 19. The ends ofthe rod are cylindrical and one end is provided 20 which operate as aratchet wheel, being engaged by the detent 16.

Arm 2 has at'its free end a projecting tongue 21 consisting of a foldedpiece of sheet metal, the edges of which abut the re entrant bend tomaintain it rigidly in place and which is held within the arm by a rivet22, the rivet being surrounded by a washer with a series oflongitudinally extending slots i 7 7 A hair waving clamp comprising twoother arm and preventing the passage of channel-shaped arms pivotedtogether at one moisture between their ends.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my end with the recesses of thearms facing each other, one of the arms being formed with a reentrantcylindrical fold along its upper outer edge to receive the edge of apad,-a channel-shaped holder extending within the open edge of each arm,the webs of the holder being turned over to frictionally embrace theedges of the webs of the arm, a strip of resilient material held withinthe holder and projecting therefrom and having flanges overlying theedges of the arm and holder, and a latch detachably connecting the freeends of the arms together.

8. A hair waving clamp comprising two channel-shaped arms pivotedtogether at one end with the recesses of the arms facing each other, oneof the arms being formed with a reentrant cylindrical fold along itsupper outer edge to receive the edge of a pad, a channel-shaped holderextending within the open edge of each arm, the webs of the holder beingturned over to frictionally embrace the edges of the webs of the arm, astrip of resilient ma terial held within the holder and projectingtherefrom and having flanges overlying the edges of the arm and holder,a bar of heat insulating material carried by and spaced from each arm,and a latch detachably connecting the free ends of the arms together.

9. A hair wavingclamp comprising two channel-shaped arms pivotedtogether at one end with the recesses of the channels facing each otherand detachably connected at the other end, and two cradles havingdepending lugs extending through the upper flange of one arm and bentover within the same to position a curling rod thereupon.

10. A hair waving clamp comprising two channel-shaped arms pivotedtogether at one end with the recesses thereof facing each other anddetachably connected at the other upon the interior of the free end'ofthe other when the arms are in closed position.

12. A hair waving clamp comprislng two channel-shaped arms pivotedtogether at one end with the recesses thereof facing each other, a latchpivoted to the free end of one of said arms, clamping it to the free endof the other arm, and a tongue rigidly attached to the first mentionedarm and closely fitting -within the recess Within the free end of thesignature this 17th day of July, 1929. GEORGE DECKER.

Aug. 23, 132 DECKER i,$73,875

APPARATUS FOR HAIR WAVING Filed Nqv. 4-, 1929 5 m 4. YI/l/Illl/ Eiii. 4

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